Ripen at Home

Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop is thrilled to present Emma Corrall’s end-of-residency solo exhibition.

‘Ripen At Home’ looks at the brevity of the expression used to market fruit that is currently inedible alongside the footsteps taken in the passing of time towards the opportune moment or ripening of time. The domestic staple of the fruit bowl and it’s anticipated abundance is explored through a new body of paintings and sculpture that seek to lead us to imagine immaterial states inspired by the green that lurks at the bottom of the bowl, on an unspoken journey.

Implementing cultural techniques that operate between art and anthropology, retail and the fitness industry, Corrall’s practice poses questions around consumer culture, object ontologies and biopolitics. A range of mediums from moving/digital image to sculptures are typically presented in relation to a physical presence; the performer in the image or the visitor to the installation. The central theme to each body of work made is the search for a connection between the speed of behavioural development with technology and our relationship with projected realities. The installations are developing an exploration of habitual and spiritual practices with no hierarchy between erratic emotions and spiritual enlightenment, the everyday and the artefact. The research is based on the ability to confront the concrete through the internal unconscious world providing outcomes for the external world. This is researched through exploring how randomness is scripted into structured systems and how order is imposed upon the indeterminate.